Recently I was lucky enough to spend some time in the Blackbirds kitchen while they were prepping pies for the next day. (It was very difficult not to drop the camera, grab the pies, and beat an escape!) They start prepping pies around 5:30pm and work into the night. The night that I went, they prepared 3 types of pies—cranberry sage, salted caramel apple, and black bottom oat.